I know, I know. You are thinking, ‘Rick, where is my dose of humorous exposition on the human culture that has been so absent from my life?’ It has been some time since my last wispy and witty repartee of words, but I have found it difficult lately to bring myself to force good nature and musing on life, culture, and the world. With class, work (don’t get me started – Rick concentrate on happy thoughts – serenity now!), oh, and Iraq, dog mauling, and aging bridges, all make it difficult to pen perky prose. Secondly, what to write on? Work? No. Definitely no. Life? Not much happening right now, in the eye of the storm. Pop culture? Do we need another exposé on over-exposed ex-celebrities? Rehab? Again? If it didn’t work the first two times… Maybe prison will work – wait – isn’t Paris still a snobbish socialite? Anyway…boring same ol’
Speaking of which, I have been thinking of different topics to write on and I came up with the idea of balance, and how life and relationships are all about balance. Guess what? Been there done that. So now I am recycling ideas without even knowing it, that’s scary. Must mean I really believe in that idea. But it brings me back to ideas, makes me wonder how writers come up with shows, movies, stories, books, or….blogs. But more power too them. I am not one to reflect or ponder life’s mysteries or keep a running self-dialog, journal, or diary. And far too often my thoughts come and go like the sun where ideas surface then sink away to the under hemisphere of my brain. For some reason, my best ideas come as I am falling asleep, when I attempt to distract myself from life just so I can fall into unconsciousness. Last night I came up with the new season plot for ‘24’, it involves sending an inaudible signal pulse through cell phone towers that can cause death to anyone who is currently talking on a cell phone at that time – around 5:58pm, beep, beep, beep, beep, boop. Now that would take out a lot of people, but don’t worry, Jack Bower will save the day and catch the bad guys…maybe, you will have to watch and see – if I ever get a job writing for Fox, which is highly unlikely. But if any of you are writers for a big studio, please ignore all the above comments relating to lack of ideas, I have a plethora of creative and real situations that can be dramatic, comical, or world ending...or all the above. I'm available for freelance work.
But if you look at the ever-expanding exposition they call film and tv, books and magazines, music and, well, music, it can be argued that it, in fact, has all been done before. Look up Barenaked Ladies or the Ryan Montbleau Band, The Forgery, or the large library of volumes covering ways to avoid doing what has been done before. Evidence: the vast motion pictures that are remakes, updates, or regurgitated storylines. Not to mention the copycat films that try to ride the popularity of other successes. See Harry Potter – The Chronicle of Narnia – The Golden Compass, 300 – Beowulf – 10000 BC, Di Vinci Code – National Treasure, and I’m pretty sure every horror movie is based on the same story – like a horror story bible or something. It makes you wonder if we will reach the capacity of human creative thought. Fortunately that looks like it is well off in the future with the advances in technology providing a whole new plethora of inspiration. In fact that could be a movie idea right there. Maybe it can be called “10,000 BCE” – Earth at the year 10,000 where humans are joined by other species with audible communication that can be translated and spoken, the weather is controlled, and no one can come up with a unique idea for a movie, book, or song. One ice age has come and gone, humans survived by going subterranean and cities span below and above ground and discrimination is based on where you live. Of course current undertones and moral questions will arise within the futuristic setting like racism, war and peace, and greed. Done and done. That movie almost writes itself, consider that idea #2 all you Hollywood writers, copyright: me. Consider that a pitch, contact me for script writing employment.
